The first tanker vessel that will store fuel from Red Hill has arrived in Hawaii. The merchant tanker “Empire State” has the capacity to hold about 11 million gallons of fuel, but some raised ...

The following is the Government Accountability Office, report DOD’s Contract Approaches and Oversight before and after the 2021 Fuel Leaks. From the report What GAO Found Fuel leaks and the release of ...

The operation to defuel the tanks began in October, after months of repairs to an aging network of pipes to prevent the World War II-era facility from springing more leaks. The task force was ...

The USS George Washington (CVN-73), a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, underwent a Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) that lasted 2,117 days, almost as long as it took to build ...

The Navy is upgrading and renovating its Oahu water system that serves 93,000 island residents, having demolished an old water storage tank with a replacement currently under construction — and ...

In October 2021 several water main breaks on the system put the system under a boil-water advisory and briefly delayed operations to defuel the Red Hill tanks. The Navy has requested funding to ...

MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SEAMAN CHRISTOPHER THOMAS / U.S. NAVY / 2021 Capt. Randall Harmeyer, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam public works officer, inspects water flushed through granulated ...

The sea service announced earlier this year that the carrier's midlife overhaul and refueling will take about five and a half years, which is some 14 months longer than first expected. The warship ...

Three of Britain's 15 civil nuclear reactors have already stopped generating power as they begin to defuel - ahead of ...

Then in November of last year, about 1,100 gallons of toxic fire-suppression foam leaked at the Red Hill facility. The Navy has said it plans to defuel the beleaguered Red Hill facility by 2024.

The prolonged circling was part of a standard safety procedure to safely defuel the aircraft to a level that would allow for a secure landing. After executing these safety protocols, the plane ...

Since the cases were filed in 2022, the Navy has made strides to shut down and defuel the facility. At the end of 2023, a Red Hill task force reported the facility had been almost entirely defueled ...